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Newcastle | Solidarity Federation Jump to Navigation Solidarity Federation Section of the International Workers Association HomeEvents Know your rights Organiser training Joining SolFed AboutIntroduction to SolFed Our Aims Industrial StrategyPolityStrategy SolFed Constitution Contact LocalsBrighton Bristol Calderdale Cambridge Liverpool Manchester Newcastle North London Northampton Norwich South London Thames Valley Industrial NetworksEducation Workers Unwaged Workers Private Sector Workers Public Service Workers Tech & Digital Workers PublicationsCatalystUncontrivedAction Pamphlets Fighting for ourselves (book) Login You are hereHome » Locals » Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle Solidarity FederationWell-nighWho we are What we do Campaigns Welcome to the page of Newcastle SolFed, the local group based in Newcastle. We moreover have members in North Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland. Most of our worriedness isn't publicised on these pages - much of which may deal with specimen work and so requires privacy. We hope to be worldly-wise to requite you an insight to the type of work we are engaged with. Please protract to Who We Are for increasingly well-nigh our Local.  Newcastle SolFed is a diverse group of workers, students and unemployed. We believe in self-organisation, uncontrived whoopee and making our own decisions -  this is why we worked our Local workshop of SolFed.Stuffa Local in Solidarity Federation ways we are part of the International Workers Association, and as you can see by the news items we post, we are zippy in supporting international struggles as well as local. Some of our solidarity deportment in and virtually Newcastle have seen people from other countries join in our pickets. Please protract to What We Do for a largest squint at our activity. Newcastle is a new Local within SolFed. Much of our work currently focuses on towers new fighting unions as part the SolFed federation in the North East.  We believe in uncontrived whoopee - we aren't professional legal advisors and we aren't a charity. People who have approached us know that they must play an zippy role in their own struggle - we are there to help, not to provide a self-ruling service.  In our short existence, we have organised public meetings, pickets in support of workers in conflict, fought our own struggles and have given solid, practical translating to an increasing number of enquiries. We do not profess to have all the answers, we believe the weightier solutions can come from the workers themselves who are in mismatch - this is the understructure as to why we are variegated to other unions. We do not lead workplace struggles - plane when our own members are in this situation. Given that SolFed uses uncontrived whoopee - whoopee carried out and controlled by those in struggle, as opposed to using intermediaries and representatives - we believe the support we offer is increasingly practical and democratic than that of reformist TUC unions.  We aim to build unbearable members to create small, fighting unions based virtually our Local and are keen to meet with other workers who are interested in organising, as well as standing social deportment - polity support and educational work. If you or anyone you know needs support and wants to play an zippy role in their own fight-back, whether working, studying or unemployed, then why not requite us a call? Newcastle Local have launched a new wayfarers to both highlight workers rights at work and to fight slantingly those who seek our help. We make no bones, our aim is to create small fighting workplace unions tying to our Local - but in order to find our feet and proceeds membership and experience, we finger this wayfarers is our weightier way forward. If you want to be part of our wayfarers or if your superabound owes you money - then why not contact us at newcastlesolfed@gmail.com - or visit our new website at: www.stuffyourboss.org.uk Its early days for Newcastle Local and things are moving very quickly. Why not requite us a shout and be part of our anarchosyndicalist fightback! Newcastle Solidarity Federation win wage theft case. Newcastle SolFed have won a substantial wage theft requirement from a large undeniability centre in Newcastle. The visitor in question has substantial relationships with the Unions and members of the Labour Party shadow cabinet. Worryingly we have uncovered illegal working conditions, dodgy tutoring schemes and dubious work practices.  A fuller report will be published in the pursuit days. Read increasingly well-nigh Newcastle Solidarity Federation win wage theft case. Fighting for Ourselves! A day of talks and music Newcastle Local are hosting a day and evening of talks and music on November 14th. From 2pm till 6pm, we have talks from Dave Douglass, Manchester SolFed and Brighton Hospitality Workers with a discussion panel to conclude. From 8pm we're having a social with music from bands and DJ's, including Grog-nose, Ship Canal and The Whippet Beans. November 14th 2pm-6pm and 8pm till late The Telegraph (Behind the Central Station) Orchard Street Newcastle-upon-Tyne Read increasingly well-nigh Fighting for Ourselves! A day of talks and music July 19th Celebration for Newcastle SolFed Members of Newcastle Local once then headed for the hills for a day out in Northumberland, this time triumphal the July 19th victory over Franco's fascists in Barcelona. July 19th 1936 saw our sister union in Spain, the CNT, in vicious street fighting virtually the Barcelona barracks. Successfully superincumbent the fascist uprising, the CNT went on to take tenancy of the municipality and beyond, placing the running of all services, production and distribution firmly in the hands of the workers. The bravery of the deportment of the CNT on July 19th 1936 has provided inspiration throughout generations since, showing flipside world is possible - one in which society can be run by the workers, for the workers, self-ruling from politicians and the State. Read increasingly well-nigh July 19th Celebration for Newcastle SolFed Quick Win as Newcastle SolFed LaunchTowersWorkersWayfarersNewcastle SolFed have launched theirTowersWorkers wayfarers with a lightening quick win. Faced with a site wage-earner who repeatedly refused to provide unobjectionable welfare facilities for a large towers site in North Tyneside, SolFed contacted the visitor with a demand to repair and wipe up the toilet block. Within hours, the toilet woodcut was repaired and cleaned up, and as an onsite SolFed member stated, were being used for the first time in months for what they were intended for. Newcastle SolFedTowersWorkers want to speak with anyone who works in construction, towers maintenance and engineering. Within these industries increasingly and increasingly workers are increasingly struggling with management abuses, pay freezes, zero hours contracts and expressly prone to stuff stung for their wages from cowboy bosses. Read increasingly well-nigh Quick Win as Newcastle SolFed LaunchTowersWorkersWayfarersLike fish out of water - on the road with Newcastle SolFed A cracking day was had by members of Newcastle SolFed today in wildest Northumberland. We've placid a few names for the next walk (July) but there's unchangingly space (we hope!) for new people. if you are interested in getting to meet members of Newcastle SolFed in a friendly, relaxed undercurrent - requite us a shout! Read increasingly well-nigh Like fish out of water - on the road with Newcastle SolFed Newcastle's unconfined escape! Newcastle SolFed are planning regular trips into the country. For those new or used to hiking, rambling or just casually strolling well yonder from the hustle of the cities and towns, this is a unconfined way to meet members of Newcastle SolFed in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Not all of us are outdoors types - some of us will have to be dragged kicking and screaming - so there are no pressures if you are a novice or unfit. People with any concerns regarding wangle or mobility should first contact us for remoter details. We won't be razzmatazz all of these events, and so are asking those interested to alimony in touch, either by email or by phone - or largest still by joining our email list. Read increasingly well-nigh Newcastle's unconfined escape! May Day Bash 2015 - in support of anarchists underdeveloped in Operation Pandora Newcastle SolFed are holding their yearly May Day Bash on Saturday 2nd May at The Telegraph pub, Orchard Street, Newcastle - doors unshut 7-30pm. This year we will be raising sensation and hopefully a few quid in support of anarchists underdeveloped in Operation Pandora, a Spanish State anti-terrorist initiative that has been used as a represive measure versus those opposed to the State and Capital, with dozens of anarchists arrested. Spain has a long and strong tradition of anarchist organising and this vituperate of starchy liberties supported throughout mainstream Spanish media is a potent reminder of the origins of May Day in 1886, where anarchists in Chicago were framed in the famous Haymarket massacre. The media fuelled the witch venery versus those anarchists, taxing the death sentence which saw 4 of the accused hung, only to be pardoned 7 years later. Read increasingly well-nigh May Day Bash 2015 - in support of anarchists underdeveloped in Operation Pandora Newcastle LocalShepherdAnti-Pegida March As predicted, the static demo held by Pegida in Newcastle's Bigg Market was something of an embarrassment for the neo-nazis. Denied a march through town, and lacking anything like a fraction of the numbers that the hype and publicity accorded to them, the unveiling of the far-rights latest toy turned out to be broken. Dredging up all the old fascists from the past several decades for something that was supposed to be new and dynamic, was both tragic and comic, with reports of less than 300 them turning up. Outnumbered many times over - several estimates of anti-fascists are tropical to 2000 - just shows that for all of Pegida's effort, Newcastle was never going to be the municipality of the Fourth Reich. Read increasingly well-nigh Newcastle LocalShepherdAnti-Pegida March Newcastle'sWayfarersStarts to Pay Off Since starting ourLargestCall SolFed wayfarers at the end of 2014, we have seen a massive value of effort stuff put into door-to-door leafleting publicising Newcastle SF as a small, radical union that fights on its own terms. The response has been fantastic - we have been as equally rented answering calls asking for translating and support from workers in the North East; we moreover kept in regular contact with someone as far yonder as Liverpool! As well as regular contacts with disgruntled workers, we have moreover taken on new members in Teesside and Wearside. And with this new growth, we have began extending our door-to-door leafleting vastitude Tyneside (here's a photo of some our members in Teesside today).Alimonyan eye out for coming newspaper ads! Read increasingly well-nigh Newcastle'sWayfarersStarts to Pay Off A year in the life of...Newcastle SolFed Newcastle Local has sealed the year in a much stronger position having gained new members, new contacts and ripened a new direction for the Local. We’ve been involved in 3 successful workplace battles - one of which stuff the Santander mismatch in Spain, that was in support of a sacked member of our Spanish sister union, the CNT; flipside stuff a week of international whoopee versus a visitor our German union, the FAU, were in mismatch with; and closer to home a local pay theft specimen in North Tyneside, which won a four figured settlement. http://www.solfed.org.uk/newcastle/another-win-for-solfed-this-month Read increasingly well-nigh A year in the life of...Newcastle SolFed New Website for Newcastle Newcastle Local have created our own wayfarers website and phone number to simplify our message and wilt easier to find.Onceregularly recommending workers in distress, we hope to increase this work as well as take on remoter specimen work as we build our Local. If you or anyone you know is in dispute with a boss, or wants translating on workplace rights and fighting back, contact us via our new site www.stuffyourboss.org.uk or ring 0191 3082354. Read increasingly well-nigh New Website for Newcastle SolFed Out in ForceVersusUnion BustingWallSolFed have been out in gravity in response to a sacked union organiser from our sister union in Spain, the CNT. Pickets were held in Brighton, Bristol, Newcastle and Middlesborough (see below). Santander have outsourced thousands of jobs in Spain, making it easier to tenancy employees working in oppressive conditions - union organisers are targetted by the notoriously unauthorized family shoestring run bank. All pickets were well received, Santander having an once shoddy reputation in Britain, it was no suprise to those asking what the row was well-nigh to find that the wall is targetting union activists. Newcastle SolFed were joined in Middlesborough by Teeside Solidarity Movement whose members sooner swelled the picket to envelope the wall and show the power of international solidarity.  Read increasingly well-nigh SolFed Out in ForceVersusUnion BustingWallSolidarity Federation Workplace Organiser Training in Newcastle There will be a Solidarity Federation Workplace Organiser Training Day on Saturday, June14th in Newcastle.  If you would like to attend, please email training[AT]solfed.org.uk The Solidarity Federation workplace organiser training programme is designed to requite workers the tools and conviction to organise in their workplaces, whether or not there's an existing union.Planeif you've had training from flipside union, you may find the uncontrived whoopee based tideway we prefer offers a fresh perspective. Whether you've got a union or not, join us for a workshop on how to create strong organisation in your workplace. Read increasingly well-nigh Solidarity Federation Workplace Organiser Training in Newcastle HSBC targeted for Las Heras complicity Today's international day of whoopee tabbed by FORA saw Newcastle Local picketing the city-centre workshop of HSBC, who provide finincial services to YPF the state-owned Argentinian oil company, making them complicit in the repression & persecution of Las Heras workers. The sparsity of an Argentine consulate proved no windbreak to Tyneside workers joining with IWA-AIT comrades in taxing the self-rule of all Las Heras workers and the end of state-sponsored attacks on those fighting for their rights. Read increasingly well-nigh HSBC targeted for Las Heras complicity Newcastle puts the 'Sol' in Solidarity! A warm, sunny day in Newcastle seemed towardly weather to turn the heat up on Santander & shine a light on their slave labour policies and Union repression. We were joined by two comrades from USI as our imprint was unfurled outside the Northumberland Street branch. There was lots of interest from workers on their lunch-break for whom solidarity with our CNT comrades in Spain needed little explanation. Most people on Tyneside have friends or family who have suffered from outsourced labour practices & our presence today was well recieved. An visitation by a flustered workshop manager, who took some photos to 'pass on' our condemnation of Santander's vituperate of workers' topped off an constructive picket of this untruthful & criminal bank. Read increasingly well-nigh Newcastle puts the 'Sol' in Solidarity! Pages1 2 next › last » You can get in touch with us via the contact form on this site. SF sites links iwa-ait.orgaf-britain.org.ukswf-iwa.org.ukdam-iwa.org.ukstuffyourboss.comselfed.org.ukdirect-action.org.ukold SF site Main menu 2HomeWell-nighContact Locals Industrial Networks Publications Login Solidarity Federation